Reformation21

Our friends at bringthebooks.org have just posted this. Can you name the three? Think: a Scotsman, a Dutchman and and a Welshman... http://www.bringthebooks.org/2010/08/three-reformed-amigos.html

Carl Trueman's latest book, Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative (P & R), is due out shortly and you can find a video discussion of the book here by our friends in Christ the Center . Perhaps I should not mention that I (positively) blurbed the book lest my reputation be shattered...

My good Catholic friend, the well-known German lay intellectual, Count Wolfram von Hofmeister-Behr, has brought to my attention this article, outlining Benedict XVI's thirty year campaign to undo the liberalizing trends of Vatican II. One thing perplexes me, however, as humble Prod outsider to all...

Crossway's ESV BIBLE ATLAS by John D. Currid and David P. Barrett First, I declare a bias - well, two if I may: that I know John Currid (one of the co-authors of this volume -he's a colleague and a dear friend), and I have something of an obsession for Bible Atlases. After all, what is more...

So former Welsh international rugby player and British and Irish Lions captain, Gareth Thomas, has made number 1 on the Independent on Sunday 's annual Pink List. While one is tempted to ask what his former wife thinks of this recognition, what is of more interesting to us Trotterskyite aesthetes...

Other than the complete lack of a sneering judge with an English accent, it seems that the first series of `Imam Idol' has been a great success, at least if the BBC report is anything to go by. So Islam has reasserted its place in the cultural avant garde for the first time since the Middle Ages...

The Church History ABCs by Stephen Nichols & Ned Bustard (Crossway, 2010) Delightfully produced, hilariously illustrated, the Church History ABCs captures the imagination by introducing children to 26 characters from church history, from Augustine to Zwingli. Bunyan was asked for a blurb (he...

I have just been preaching at the Longhorsley Bible Convention in Northumbria (2-4 July 2010). This was my second visit to the convention, and my fellow-labourer in the preaching ministry was Dr Peter Naylor, minister with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Cardiff. The convention is always...

There is a philosophy current among evangelical preachers that one is not really preaching unless one is expounding and explaining a book of the Bible theme by theme, passage by passage, week by week. In some places, as I have discovered, any other method of biblical exposition is highly suspect...

Be in prayer today for our friend Joni Eareckson Tada--a true trophy of God's grace--who is undergoing breast cancer surgery this afternoon. Here is a message from her .